US Patent Issued to IonQ on Sept. 30 for "Methods and apparatuses for trap-door loading" (Maryland, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,255, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to IonQ Inc. (College Park, Md.).

"Methods and apparatuses for trap-door loading" was invented by Jeremy Matthew Sage (Acton, Mass.) and Michael Lurie Goldman (University Park, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure may include a method and/or a system for trap-door loading including pumping at least one qubit ion from a first manifold of a first plurality of manifolds to a second manifold of the first plurality of manifolds, drive the at least one qubit ion via a partial clock transition from the second manifold of the first plurality of manifolds to a third manifo...